CYP6182 - Overschooled and Undereducated? Alternative Education Practices

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Understand and explain the varieties of alternative education in theory and practice, drawing on UK and international examples;
Critically assess competing theories of alternative education and their implications for current educational practice;
Critically analyse the assumptions built into alternative education theories and their strengths and weaknesses.

Content:

The course will:
• Explore alternative education theories;
• Examine specific practices of alternative education such as democratic schooling, human scale schools, de-schooling and home education;
• Critically assess the evidence and theory in relation to impact on pupil learning and wellbeing;
• Compare the impacts to mainstream schooling;
• Explore what, if any, lessons can be learned from alternative
educational provision for restructuring mainstream education.

Learning and Teaching Information:

The module will be taught in workshops that utilise a range of pedagogies. This will include case studies, discussion groups, project work and presentations by guest speakers. By definition this course explores alternative education so there will not be a standard prescription of how the course will be taught. Rather, this will follow the philosophy of the course itself and be, in part, dependent on student suggestions.

Lecture, seminar, workshops, visits and discussion groups and work-based tasks
Contact hours: 24
Intended Group size: 50

Tutorials
Contact hours: 1.5 hrs
Intended Group size: 2

e-Tutoring
Contact hours: 2
Intended group size: 1

Guided independent study
Hours: 172.5

Assessment: